curling Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target
  2. verb form a curl, curve, or kink
    curl; curve; kink.
    • the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
  3. verb shape one's body into a curl
    curl up; curl; draw in.
    • She curled farther down under the covers
    • She fell and drew in
  4. verb wind around something in coils or loops
    coil; curl; loop.
  5. verb twist or roll into coils or ringlets
    curl; wave.
    • curl my hair, please
  6. verb play the Scottish game of curling
    curl.
  7. adjective satellite of hair having curls
    curled.

WordNet

Curl"ing noun
Definitions
  1. The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
  2. A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
    Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has been well laid before, or to strike off that of his antagonist. Pennant (Tour in Scotland. 1772).

Webster 1913